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| Mt. Hood with Lavender |
***Watercolor Painting Classes*** at my Art in my Heart Studio (Tumalo, just 5 miles north of Bend, OR)
Refining your painting skills with watercolor warm-ups, composition and design.
Tuesday afternoons: October 11, 18, 25, & November 1, 2011 from 12:30 – 3:30
***Rainbow Studies***
Unlock the secrets to creating vibrant and harmonious paintings.
Learn about color theory, successful color mixing, how not to make muddy paintings and how to understand the characteristics of pigments. You will make a color journal that will become a valuable reference.
***Watercolor Workshop in the Columbia River Gorge***
November 13 – 17, 2011, Check-in is Sunday night at 5:00 PM. This is a “double header” with Jacqueline Newbold and Mary Burgess. You will have two full 9 AM – 4 PM days with each instructor as they share with you their passion for art.
Mary Burgess: Hands-on Paper Design
Jacqueline Newbold: Watercolor Journeys, Inspirations from travels
Students will explore ways to make their watercolor travel journal interesting and reflective of their experiences through painting landscapes, vignettes and memoirs, and by incorporating collected treasured items. Learn how to make quick-on the go-sketches using colorful watercolor washes and pen and ink drawings. Students will also experiment with stamping, stenciling, napkin collage, maps, and artistic lettering to enhance their journals in order to build a launching board of creativity for their next artistic journey
***Watercolor Journaling Painting Workshop in Greece, June 25 -29, 2012***
Watercolor Journaling in Greece with Jacqueline Newbold 2012
Travel Dates: June 25 to 29, 2012.
Contact Admissions at 800-487-8839 for more information regarding travel dates.
Learn to create your own watercolor journals and incorporate the benefits of art healing in your life or your holistic health practice.
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| Celebration, Watercolor |
I often like to do little watercolor painting warm-ups before I settle down to a larger piece. These mini-paintings are fun and spontaneous. This is a great way to work out color and composition. I recommend that you try this watercolor warm-up!
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Part of the fun of going to one of the art retreats is being able to take classes from teachers you admire. I have always loved Beryl Taylor’s work and was fortunate enough to take a class from her! I love her sense of color and design. She mixes paints, fabric, and journaling. Yes – I did actually sit at a sewing machine and do some sewing on the pieces in my journal above. I have to tell you that fabric art has come a long way from when I used to sew!
The final project for this class was to bind the little pages into a petite book. Instead, I ended up putting them in my watercolor art journal as I thought I would see them more often there and they will serve as a reminder to what I learned in this fabulous class: painting on metal, painting on muslin, layering and creative edges.
Thank you Beryl!
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| The poster outside my classroom |
I have been in Lisle on the outskirts of Chicago for several days “doing art” at CREATE, 2011! My favorite part was making new friends and sharing creative ideas! I am already looking forward to the CREATE retreat in Irvine, California.
I thought I would come home and clean up and organize my studio, but instead, I was so jazzed about the new things I learned and the encouragement I got about my journals, that before my suitcase was even empty my studio became messier than ever! I think that I now have about 4-5 projects going – all in the different stages of completeness. Watercolor, watercolor journaling, book pages, and even painting on fabric! Yes, you CREATE fabric folks made an impression on me!
Is this how you like to create? Or are you more of an organized, neat, finish one project before starting the next type of artist?
More photos from my Flip, Flaps & Fold-out Class at CREATE:
I love traveling through the San Francisco Airport. They always have an interesting artistic display. This month it was a look at old TV shows and board games. Do you remember the Twilight Zone Game? Lost in Space?
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| Just out of the shell and one still to come out! August 17, 2011 |
My brooding hen of 21 days reminds me of a painting I did a couple of years ago. Chickens are a great subject to paint, practicing soft edges, reflected light and big shapes. Sometimes when I am at a loss as to what to paint, I always dabble with chicken paintings.
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| Ethyl is Out, Watercolor |
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| Just Pecking, Watercolor |
The excitement around our house yesterday was that we heard little chirps coming from the six eggs we gave Laverne, our sitting hen. While Laverne was up, stretching her legs and getting her self-induced regime of eating only once a day, I actually saw one of the eggs move! Today is the 21st day and the chicks will be breaking out of their calcified confinement.
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| Laverne sitting on eggs |
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| Curious onlookers |
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| Rainbow Studies |
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| Flip, Flaps and Fold-Outs |
CREATE Mixed Media Retreat is two weeks away and I have been excitedly getting ready for my classes that I am teaching. Even though the Flip, Flaps and Fold-Outs class is full, there are still a couple of spots left in the Rainbow Studies Class. This class will focus on using the color wheel to create harmonious little watercolor painting studies. If you struggle with color, this class will be of great value. I look forward to meeting all the artists that will be at CREATE!
